YES!!!
I thought FReepers would pick up on this faster - can't believe I had to wade through almost 200 posts before I found anyone raising suspicions.
As soon as I saw this very alleged 1964 "literacy" test, the font and spacing immediately caught my eye.
Question: Did Slate's original article, as posted on FR, contain this so-called "update" that was inserted by the time I read it?
"Update: This test—a word-processed transcript of an original—was linked to by Jeff Schwartz, who worked with the Congress of Racial Equality in Iberville and Tangipahoa Parishes in the summer of 1964. Schwartz wrote about his encounters with the test in this blog post."
So Slate seems to have posted this "update" for CYA purposes. But that's not good enough. IF this test actually existed, why didn't Slate demand of Mr. Schwartz (the apparent purveyor of this obviously word-processed "1964" document) a scanned version of the original ? Or if Slate did receive such proof, why didn't they post it?
None of the claims made about this "test" should be taken seriously, unless Slate makes the original available to objective document experts.